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Kat Gonso

Professor of the Practice, Messina College

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Kat Gonso

Contact

Telephone: 617-552-6009

Email: kat.gonso@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Baldwin Wallace College
  • M.F.A., Emerson College

Profile

I am a Boston-based writer and educator with a diverse teaching background, including composition, literature, and creative writing courses. I have held several administrative roles, including director of first-year writing and director of the Writing Center at Northeastern University. In 2024, I was honored with the Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award. My fiction has been widely published and has won many awards.

My teaching is dedicated to community-building and inclusion, focusing on first-generation college students and the LGBTQIA+ community. In 2021, I received a Faculty Innovations Grant in Diversity and Academic Excellence for the project “Creating and Curating Knowledge: First-Generation Low-Income Student Voice and the Experiential Liberal Arts.” This grant enabled my collaborator, Prof. Caitlin Thornbrugh, and I to co-found First and Foremost, a student-run literary magazine dedicated to amplifying the voices of first-generation students. 

My teaching is experiential and global. I have taught service-learning courses connected with Boston-based initiatives, including The Black Umbrella Project and the Hyde Park Social Justice Coalition. In 2021, I was named a faculty fellow for the study abroad program Food and Culture in Vietnam and Cambodia. I am grateful to be a part of the Messina community, where I engage in the work I love: writing, teaching, and co-creating knowledge with students. 

Awards & Publications

SELECTED APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS

Outstanding Teaching Award. College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. 2024.

The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. First Place. The Southeast Review

Northeastern University Global Experience Fellowship

Northeastern University Service-Learning Fellow

Northeastern University Humanities Center Grant

PUBLICATIONS

“Valuing the Process: Building a Foundation for Collaborative Peer Review.” With Kristen Getchell. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. Print. (2019).

“Varying Authorial Roles of the University Tutor in High School Writing Centers.” Teachers on Writing and Writers on Teaching. Emerson College. (2011).

“Rhetorical Situations, Research Writing, and Genre: Cross-Institutional Collaboration on Curriculum Design.” With Diana George and John Trimbur et.al. Journal of College Writing. 10. (2010): 1 – 42.

SELECTED CREATIVE WORKS 

â€Ćಹ˛Ôľ±±đ±ô.” Storm Cellar. Print. (March 2018)

“Cleveland, 2009.” Jellyfish Review. Web. (February 2018)

“Ełć±č´Ç˛őłÜ°ů±đ.” Hobart. Web. (September 2017).

“B±ô´Ç´Ç»ĺ±ô±đ˛ő˛ő.” Green Briar Review. Web. (February 2016). 

“PłÜ˛ú±đ°ůłŮ˛â.” SmokeLong Quarterly. Quarterly Publication. Web. (June, 2015). 

“Izzy Stole Maria’s Night Guard.” Corium. Web. (2014). 

“Harry Holden and Everything After.” Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. 7.1 (2014).   

 “A Pinch of Salt.” The Southeast Review. 32.1 (2014).

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